telekinesis

What it means

1. uncountableThe ability to move objects, or otherwise interact with physical systems and other phenomena, through the power of one's mind.

   He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.

   1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61

   5 more examples

   Telekinetic energy, which has been variously designated as psychic force (Sir William Crookes), ectenic force (Professor Thury), and telekinesis (Professor Cowes), is demonstrably a power or faculty of the subjective mind.

   1899, Thomson Jay Hudson, The Divine Pedigree of Man, page 154

   And this brings me to a consideration of how the phenomena of telekinesis may conceivably be produced — granting that the phenomena are ever genuine at all.

   1920, Hereward Carrington, The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, page 367

   'Venison' he declared, mentally lifting the animal through the air toward him without a second thought to the act, though telekinesis was a spell that hadn't been in the considerable repertoire of Morkai the Red.

   1988, Robert Salvatore, The Crystal Shard, page 39

   She regards telekinesis as impossible and claims for it as generally fraudulent. For two years she worked in a university laboratory testing telekinesis,

   2000, Fred M. Frohock, Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism, page 29

   Perhaps the most famous demonstrations of telekinesis came in the 1970s when a young psychic from Russia named Uri Geller came to prominence for his ability to bend spoons and other metal objects without any physical contact.

   2002, Rita Berkowtiz with Deborah S. Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits, page 187

2. countableuncountableAn instance of use of such power.

In a sentence

Telekinetic energy, which has been variously designated as psychic force (Sir William Crookes), ectenic force (Professor Thury), and telekinesis (Professor Cowes), is demonstrably a power or faculty of the subjective mind.

1899, Thomson Jay Hudson, The Divine Pedigree of Man, page 154

Where it comes from

From tele- + -kinesis.